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...down her policies, says political analyst Swapan Dasgupta, "because she has this arbitrary style." Since taking over in Uttar Pradesh again, Mayawati, who has called herself a "living goddess," has ordered half a dozen statues of herself and is building a $100 million park to commemorate BSP founder Kanshi Ram. She also wants to spend billions of dollars on a highway running beside the Ganges and has plans for a shopping mall next to the Taj Mahal. Such huge projects appeal to her supporters not only because they provide thousands of jobs but because, like her birthday parties, they project...
...DIED. Kanshi Ram, 72, activist member of India's caste of Dalits-or untouchables-who in 1984 helped organize millions of the country's disenfranchised by founding the Bahujan Samaj Party, which became the most powerful lower-caste political party in India; in New Delhi. Credited with spurring a radical shift in the perception of lower castes, Ram battled the upper-caste Brahmins and even criticized modern India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi-revered for his advocacy of civil rights-for not doing enough to challenge the rigid social system...
...DIED. Kanshi Ram, 72, activist member of India's caste of Dalits--or untouchables--who in 1984 organized millions of the country's disenfranchised by founding the Bahujan Samaj Party, which instantly became the most powerful lower-caste political party in India; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. Credited with spurring a radical shift in the perception of lower castes, Ram battled the upper-caste Brahmins and even criticized modern India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi--revered for his advocacy of civil rights--for not doing enough to challenge the rigid social system...
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